Sending Mails from your Ubuntu Server

April 2020

How can I send mails from the command line?

The first thing you'll need is a gmail account, that is dedicated to this purpose. So go ahead and create one. Then what you need to do is to also allow "less secure apps" to send e-mails. You can do that at
https://myaccount.google.com/lesssecureapps.

After having set up your Gmail Account for sending mails, you can log in to your server and run through the following steps.

sudo apt-get install ssmtp mailutils

Open the following file in your favorite text editor (vim, nano, ...):